The Consequences of Early Food Production

This essay reviews three books on food production, including the emergence, spread, and strategies of agriculture. As a group, the books draw on ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and biological anthropological approaches and sources of evidence. Combining multiple sources of evidence and theoretical approaches—even when these compete with one another or appear to conflict—provides the safest answers to anthropological questions on the consequences of the shift from foraging to agriculture

Agriculture · Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Biology · Economics · Ethnography · Food processing · Foraging · Political science · Production (economics) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Forensic and Genetic Research · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

• Deconstructing the Lapita Cultural Complex in the Bismarck Archipelago

  Open Access•Jim Specht, Tim Denham et al.•Journal of Archaeological Research•2013

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• Synthetic Histories

  C Ballard•Reviews in Anthropology•2010

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• Land Degradation and Society

  Piers M Blaikie, Piers Blaikie et al.•Land Degradation and Society•2015

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• Intensification and Disintensification in Pacific Agriculture

  Open Access•H C Brookfield, Harold Brookfield•Pacific Viewpoint•1972

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• Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites

  Open Access•Wolfgang Haak, Peter Forster et al.•Science•2005

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• Farmers and Their Languages

  Open Access•Jared Diamond, P Bellwood•Science•2003

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• Land Degradation and Society

  Harold Brookfield, Piers Blaikie et al.•Land Degradation and Society•2015

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• A History of Archaeological Thought

  Open Access•Bruce G Trigger•History of Archaeological Thought•2006

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• East Asian Plant Domestication

  Gary W Crawford•Archaeology of Asia•2006

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• Guns, Germs, and Steel

  J Edward Rall•The Journal of Nervous and Mental…•1999

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• Intensification as Situated Process

  K D Morrison, Kathleen Morrison•Agricultural Strategies•2006

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• Archaeology and Language

  Marija Gimbutas, Colin Renfrew•The American Historical Review•1990

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• Agricultural Strategies

  Joyce Marcus, Charles Stanish•Agricultural Strategies•2006

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• Women Cross-Culturally

  Ruby Rohrlich-Leavitt•Women Cross-Culturally•1975

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• Low-Level Food Production

  Open Access•B D Smith•Journal of Archaeological Research•2001

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• Archaeology and Language

  C Gamble, Colin Renfrew•The South African Archaeological…•1988

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• Peter Bellwood. First farmers

  Open Access•John Edward Terrell•Antiquity•2005

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• The Emergence of Agriculture

  Tim Denham, Peter White et al.•Emergence of Agriculture•2020

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• Guns, Germs, and Steel

  Jared M Diamond, Jared Diamond•Guns, germs, and steel•1999

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• Reconstructing Prehistoric Population Movements

  Ruth Gruhn•Reviews in Anthropology•2006

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• Last Hunters-First Farmers

  David R Harris, T D Price et al.•Journal of Field Archaeology•1999

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• Archaeological Cables and Tacking

  Open Access•A Wylie•Philosophy of the Social Sciences•1989

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• Engendering Archaeology

  Stephen L Dyson, Joan M Gero et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1992

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• Distinguished Lecture in Archeology

  Open Access•Elizabeth M Brumfiel•American Anthropologist•1992

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• Early Agriculturalist Population Diasporas? Farming, Languages, and Genes

  P Bellwood•Annual Review of Anthropology•2001

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• Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean

  Sue Colledge, James Conolly et al.•Current Anthropology•2004

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